Timeline of West Virginia: Civil War and Statehood
October 8, 1861

Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
October 12, 1861

THE REBELS AT WORTHINGTON - MORE FIGHTING IN THAT SECTION - On Tuesday last the rebels at Worthington, Marion county, killed a man named Sharp a member of Capt. Nay's Home Guards. They ran his body through with a bayonet, and tying a bullet across his breast left him lying on the ground. The next day a party of the Union soldiers came upon a body of the rebels and killed two of them, John Anderson, a ringleader, and another man named Gallahue. At another time the Union men shot the hand off of John Righter, as he was sneaking through the woods.